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Ralph AdamsMaguey: Plant of a Thousand Uses (1952)

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Adams is a filmmaker whose life and work appear to be completely unknown today, as we have conducted a fruitless search to obtain biographical and filmographic information. He covered a breadth of territory, and we suspect that he might have made dozens of films on Mexican themes. His narration is not the most compelling, but he was a very good cinematographer, and apparently insisted upon superior print materials, as his color is exceptional for the era. Here, he describes the myriad uses of this interesting plant, including fences, paper, tequila, pulque, needle and thread and rope.


This movie is part of the collection: Academic Film Archive of North America

Director: Ralph Adams
Producer: Ralph Adams
Production Company: Ralph Adams Productions
Sponsor: Castellano Family Foundation
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: maguey; pulque


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ARRIBA MEXICO!!!!
The best documentary ever.


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